Vehicle battery case
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorsYu Ri Oh, In Gook Son, Seok Eun Yoon
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Abstract
A vehicle battery case includes: a lower panel disposed on a bottom of a vehicle and configured to support a battery from below; a battery cross member disposed on the lower panel and extending in the width direction of the vehicle; and battery side members which are disposed on both sides of the lower panel in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and in contact with both ends of the battery cross member. Each battery side member has a flange part which extends from the lower end thereof to the outside of the vehicle and is connected to a side sill, and a load applied to the side sill of the vehicle during a vehicle side collision is sequentially transferred from the battery side member to the battery cross member.
Claims11
A vehicle battery case comprising:
- a lower panel disposed at a bottom of a vehicle and configured to support a battery from below;
- a battery cross member disposed on the lower panel and extending in a width direction of the vehicle;
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- battery side members disposed on sides of the lower panel in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle such that the battery side members are in contact with both ends of the battery cross member via inner surfaces of the battery side members,
- wherein each of the battery side members includes a flange part which extends from a lower end thereof to an outside of the vehicle and is connected to a side sill,
- wherein a load applied to the side sill of the vehicle during a vehicle side collision is sequentially transferred from the battery side member to the battery cross member, and
- wherein the battery side member includes a partition wall part including the inner surface in contact with one of the ends of the battery cross member, and a connection part connecting the flange part and the partition wall part to each other in a diagonal direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.